Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imports rose 15% during the year, with nearly all of the increase in U.S. manufactured goods to satisfy the rapidly improving Canadian standard of living...
...lives with his second wife and their daughter, Arabella, 6. (His son Winston II, 15, is at Eton.) "I like to attack rich and powerful people. I like to do things the hard way." In the Spectator, in a signed weekly column for Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard and by freelancing, Randolph plays his role of gadfly. His cause, and the lusty Churchillian way he fights it, has gained him new respect in Fleet Street. Said an editor: "He's done a lot of good. He's saying things that should be said...
...avoid these pitfalls, some companies have adopted what is virtually a conference manager. Standard Oil Co. of California, for example, got worried about the problem about twelve years ago, and put Conference Organizer Lewis Purkey to work on it. Says Purkey: "It took me and my staff three weeks just to find out how many committees we had and what they were supposed to do. We found that we had about 200." Purkey set up stringent rules governing the forming of committees and running of conferences. Now every new committee must have a written outline stating its purposes before...
...gets minds working and ideas flowing. Says Executive Engineer James Moulton: "There are a lot of things that an executive doesn't want to put down in writing. A man will often say things that may not be sound or serious just to stimulate someone else." But like Standard, P.G.&E. puts the job of making decisions squarely on the shoulders of individual executives...
CLINTON FOODS, which last year sold its Snow Crop frozen-food division to Minute Maid for $22.5 million (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954), has sold off the rest of its production facilities. For $58 million, Clinton sold its corn-processing (syrup, starch, animal feeds) and partition (food cases) business to Standard Brands...